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A news article announcing proposed E 306 curriculum changes, with quotes form Kruppa and Brodkey. p. B2
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Kelley, Paul. "From the University Council." _OnCampus_ April 12-29 1984, p. B22
This article reports on the University Council meeting of 16 April 1984.
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An article in OnCampus by Paul Kelley that includes a detailed summary of Sledd’s argument to the University Council and Kinneavy’s opposition. Kinneavy refutes Sledd’s accusations against English Dept at length, Megaw supports Sledd proposal. Details motion to postpone vote because most student representatives had not had chance to read Sledd’s memo.
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Kelley, Paul. "From the University Council." _OnCampus_ March 26-April 1 1984, p. 15
Reports on the 19 March 1984 meeting of the University Council in which James Sledd asked President Flawn about the fate of English 106/206.
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Article in Texas Monthly magazine that takes conservative stance on first year writing, citing an anonymous English professor.
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Beyer, Lisa. "Bringing Back Basics." _Daily Texan_ 18 April 1983, p. 4
Beyer praises the Vick Report recommendations, with special emphasis on the new writing requirement.
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Muller, Debra. "Students and Faculty Call E 306 'Valuable.'" _Daily Texan_ 10 September 1985 p. 6. Article discusses students and faculty opinions of E 306.
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Article in which a Daily Texan staff writer reports on Gribben's claim that the newspaper had been biased in its coverage of the controversy surrounding the E346K course proposal.
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Shaw, Mark. "English 346K Abolished as Deans Plan New Requirement." _Daily Texan_ 18 February 1986, p. 5
This article reports that the university Deans decided to delete the E346K course requirement altogether.
Quoted: Gerhard Fonken, UT vice president, and Joe Kruppa, associate chair English, and Wayne Danielson (journalism professor). Other topics mentioned: E 309K, E 309L, E 309M, and staffing writing courses.
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Reber, Thomas. "E 309 Planned Differently From Original Departmental Proposal." _Daily Texan_ 5 March 1986, p. 4
This opinion article, written by an Assistant Instructor in English, explains how the English faculty decided to make E 309 a required class, questions the English Department's ability to staff enough E 309 courses, criticizes the proposed crash courses to be offered by the Writing Lab, and rebuts Gribben's criticisms of E 306.
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Lai, Thanhha. "E 306 Controversy Continues." _Daily Texan_ 22 January 1986, p. 7
This article reports that E306 will be around for another year, despite “a proposal to drop it,” but E346K will have to wait for its possible revival. Kruppa and Kinneavy are quoted.
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Harwood, Quittner. "Changes Loom for Students." _Daily Texan_ 19 march 1985, p. 1. Describes plan by university administrators to encourage pre-registration, and makes mention of significant writing component courses.
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A news article in the Daily Texan that discusses the overwhelming approval of the E346K course proposal. There are approving comments by committee members Kruppa, Rossman, and Gribben and a dissenting opinionby Kinneavy
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Muller and Never article in _The Daily Texan_ reports primarily English Department faculty reactions to the newly proposed 9 hour English requirement, which outsources much of E 346K and E 306.
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Sledd's letter to the editor of the Daily Texan in response to an earlier opinion article on titled "Critics of E 346K Committee Claim Unfair Representation." Sledd claims that the battle is actually between the department's rhetoricians and literati who cannot unite behind the program, and that an honest decision would be to abandon all requirements in English
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Muller article in _The Daily Texan_ describes the 9 hour English requirement in which E 306 will be outsourced and not taught at UT.
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An opinion article in which the authors advocate that the new E346K Committee proposal be voted down by the Department of English.
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Muller, Debra. "Faculty Debate E 306, Changing Requirements." _Daily Texan_ 12 Sept 1985, p. 1. Discusses report fo E 346K evaluation committee and disagreement within English Dept.
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Muller article describes English department proposal to shift the teaching of E 346K sections to other departments.
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The document is a news article from the Daily Texan on an alternative plan to restructure the Writing program. The structure of the program and comments by Kruppa, Kinneavy, and Ruszkiewicz are covered.
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A news article in the Daily Texan in which Kinneavy is reported to have said that the Rhetoric Interest Group's alternative proposals for writing courses was not given ample consideration by the E 346k Committee
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An open letter signed by many graduate students protesting their removal from all English Department committees
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Craft, Renee. "Officials Differ on Temporary Professor Use." _Daily Texan_ 4 August 1986, p. 6.
Responding to a _Chronicle of Higher Ed_ report on abuses of non-tenure-track faculty, this article features two UT departments: computer science, which praises temporary professors as a way to keep new professional information in circulation, and English, where non-tenure-track faculty can be a burden. The mass firing of English lecturers is mentioned as are last year's problems in the English Department. The Department of Art is briefly mentioned. Kruppa is quoted.
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Taylor, Suzanne. "Department Plans Structure of New English Requirements." _Daily Texan_ 9 April 1986, p. 1.
This is the second of a two-article series about the changes to the English writing program. Topics discussed include: the phasing out of E 306. the test that allows students to test out of E 306 (the ECT), changes to the Writing Lab, the addition of E 309, and the place of “technical writing” instruction after E 346K has been removed. Kruppa, Faigley, Kinneavy, Bertelson, Gribben, Ruszkiwicz, and Sutherland are quoted.
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This Daily Texan article discusses the proposal to make E 306 an extension course for students.